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- I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
- Bethania McKenstry
- Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
- There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
- Jassamyn West
- When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
- Edith Hamilton
- The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg (1862 - 1942)
- Where facts are few, experts are many.
- Donald R. Gannon
- Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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